The women?s soccer team spent Tuesday night together in front of the TV nervously awaiting the selections for the NCAA tournament.
The men?s hockey team earned its first shutout of the season Tuesday night thanks to junior goaltender Zane Kalemba?s impressive performance between the pipes, as Princeton defeated Quinnipiac 2-0 at the TD Banknorth Center.?[Kalemba] deserves a ton of credit for this one because we really didn?t play our best game,? head coach Guy Gadowsky said.
The men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams are looking to continue their tradition of success as they vie for their 18th and 14th league titles this season, respectively.
It?s been 956 days since the wrestling team won a dual meet. While this statistic might evoke images of a broken, disheartened cadre, Princeton is poised to blast above the standard set during the last two seasons.
Over the summer, Sports Illustrated named Princeton the 13th-best collegiate sports program in the nation.
Some call them ?Meathead Miracles?; others call them ?Figies.? Whatever their name, it?s hard not to be impressed by the world-record-breaking feats of Ryan Bonfiglio ?01.
Men?s squash coach Bob Callahan ?77 has shaved his mustache. Looking at the men?s and women?s team pictures that line the walls of Jadwin?s squash galleries, the one constant, at least for the 27 years since the men?s 1981-82 season, is Callahan?s easygoing smile and simple black mustache.The pictures are an odd assortment of the past: Color to black-and-white, ranging from the perfectly symmetrical legs crossed, rackets crossed, all black uniforms to gentlemen in blazers and ties lounging around the massive Tiger that guards the southeast entrance to Chancellor Green.
And so it begins.The 109th season of Princeton men?s basketball and the second in the tenure of head coach Sydney Johnson ?97 sits two days away.
Replacing 17.7 points per game would be a hard task for any basketball squad. For Princeton?s women?s basketball team, finding someone to fill the leadership role of departed forward Meagan Cowher ?08 may be even more difficult.For a crash course in how to replace a senior star, the Tigers might look to the Ivy champion women?s soccer team for inspiration.
When the field hockey team lost 5-0 to then No. 2 Maryland, few thought that it would be a blessing in disguise.
The induction of its coach to the
Fresh off its exciting win over Penn this past Saturday, the women?s soccer team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA College Cup for the first time since 2004.
The women?s tennis team traveled down to North Carolina last weekend to participate in the Duke/University of North Carolina Invitational.
In what could be its most exciting match of the season, the women?s volleyball team came back after dropping the first two sets to run Harvard out of the building in a shocking 3-2 win in Cambridge, Mass.
?One of the most difficult things to do is to have that consistent approach day in and day out,? head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn said about the women?s field hockey team after its fourth Ivy title in as many years.
With one minute, 29 seconds left in the fourth period, junior utility Eric Vreeland delivered a perfect lob shot from just outside the five-meter line, putting up the last point of the men?s water polo team?s match as No.
If it were possible to summarize the women?s soccer team?s season in one game, it would have looked remarkably similar to the drama that unfolded on Myslik Field on Saturday afternoon.Princeton (12-2-2 overall, 5-1-1 Ivy League) faced Penn (8-6-2, 2-3-3) in a rain-soaked matchup that had a bit of everything: flashes of superb technical soccer, pulse-raising near misses from the opposition, sterling senior leadership and a last-minute goal that left the crowd in a state of near euphoria.
After losing its home opener, the men?s hockey team was faced with a must-win contest 24 hours later.
